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Kootenays

600+ this year, new PB thanks to you all for the useful tips...Should I till in or remove the vines after harvest?

10/5/2012 2:12:04 PM

Germany

A couple of times I have read that it´s better to remove old pumpkin plant material from the patch and let it compost somewhere else (just use the finished compost to bring your "old vines" back to the patch). (The reason is disease pressure, which will increase as soon as there are potentially infected plant residues in the patch and the disease could start to spread in the next season quite early.) Tilling in some cover crop also brings more or less fresh plant material into the soil but it doesn´t mean the same problem, because it will be a totally different kind of plants which probably won´t support the "pumpkin diseases". Hence, I clear the patch and plant a cover crop.

10/5/2012 2:42:01 PM

Billerica,Massachusetts

remove and dispose and or burn if possible, you do not want to put the material back in the soil and risk adding diseases and insects/eggs back into the patch.


Glenn

10/5/2012 3:37:42 PM